Eternity

Chapter 3: A Sunny Day

6 a.m, it rains really hard. Enough to wake a baby in his dream. It is just Alma in guild master office, sit on the couch, just finishing her breakfast downstairs. The door's key hole is clicked, its the guild master.

"Jesus! Wha- come on, miss Alma."

"Morning sir, a good day to you, isn't it?"

"Yeah, a good day for an assassination. You could have got me killed. I am old enough to get an heart attack."

"Heart attack? You look healthy in your seventies."

"Enough with the jokes, there is so much time left. I have work to be done before the appointment."

The guildmaster started to place a thick stack of documents and started to look after each pages. Alma just sit there calmly, sipping her morning coffee. Sitting behind the stack of document, he looks at Alma.

"Do you know the others?"

"I have a hunch."
Alma place her coffee.
"Righteous Chris and the carefree Anne."

"You have a good instinct or, I have to give my regard to your informant. Your side job as an assassin is well known between the higher ups."

Alma just open the newspaper on the table. She just silently browsing throigh it.

The silences continous for half an hour until someone knock the door. As the door opened, a big muscular man with a blonde hair comes in. He wears a golden full plate armor, with his red cape waving. A big sword in his bag, unseathed. The man approach Alma, raising his right hand.

"Chris, chris jericho. Marshal of the sunlion empire."

"Alma, just Alma. Nice to meet you, handsome." Alma shake Chris' hand.

"Alright it is almost seven, just one more person." The director put his worksheet aside. Just before he stands,

"I'm not late, am I?" A cheerful elf comes in. Her silver hair glittering. She wears a green tunic and a leather armour. Her quiver dangling on her back, with a full amount of arrows. Chris reach his hands again,

"Chris, Chris Jericho. Marshal of the sunlion empire."

"Oh, nice to meet you sweety. I am Anne, Anne Corley."

"Nice to meet you too, miss Anne."

Alma snickering, "What a boring man."
Chris just shrugh it off and sit on the chouch across Alma. Anne sit right next to Chris.

"You look like a bad girl eh? miss Alma."

"It is a pleasure to hear it from the finest marksman among the elves."

"Okay that's it, lets start the meeting." The guild master take some paper and distributed it. They received and look at it with curious face, except Alma.

"Unbelievable, is it true? I have lived for a few hundreds but this is my first time. I've never encounter such monstrousity."

"Do you want us to subjugate it? I think it will be hard for me. How about you, miss Alma?"

"What? I am pumped, I want a new challenge. I am bored to death. There aren't anything fun nowadays."

"Don't be reckless, miss Alma. Can't you see what this monster capable of? We don't even know, is it really its full power."

"Yea-yea, you and your yapping."

"Don't be like that miss alma. Are you really sure you can slain it?"

"Try me then, OLD HAG!"

Anne take an arrow, Alma unseath her dagger. Just in a nick of time, the guildmaster shouted,

"Stop please! There is an elder here!"

Chris just sit and watch while folding his hands.
"Can we waste no more time?"

"Ehm, okay. I would like to tell you about this mission. The three of you just have to investigate it. No one slaying anything. Okay? There is a warp gate opened outside. So? Wrap it up."

The three of them just nod their head. A big bluish spiral shining outside of the guild. They started to go in one by one. Chris first, Anne waving her hand and Alma just go in silently. The cheer of the crowd like a cheer at a parting heroes echoing through the guild. The rains still pouring, but the cheers starting to stop as the portal closed.